Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Andy Sy enlightened us with: >> Like I said, you'll *NEVER* get that fancy shmancy 'semantic >> indentation' idea to work properly in the most basic utilities which >> have the 8-space tabs assumption hardcoded in them. > > Fair enough. How much code is viewed with less and cat, and how much > is viewed using smart viewers/editors? I think the majority is viewed > using the latter.
Just for the sake of completeness: cat file |sed 's/\t/ /g' less -x4 file vim ~/bin.cat #!/bin/sh cat "$@" |sed 's/\t/ /g' :wq alias less='less -x4' -- Edward Elliott UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) complangpython at eddeye dot net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
